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Aug. 18th, 2002 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beandelphikiHas anyone here (who's read the Redwall books) seen the Redwall TV show?
Have you read The Rats of NIMH? Well, in that case, have you seen the animated version of it? (I can't remember if that was a TV series or not.)
And how incredibly disappointing did you find it? Really.
I thoroughly dislike this newish trend of taking children's classics and dumbing them down to unbelievable levels. I watched some of The Rats on TV at my grandparents, and just generally thought it was a waste of airspace. Not only did it seem a bit dumbed down, the voices were annoying. Why should the mice automatically have high voices? It irritated me that they'd even try to make a TV show (TV movie?) out of The Rats, because so much would be lost. It's just not a book that translates to that medium.
But what bothers me the most about both of these shows is the animation...by default, the style is too "cute." Particularly for The Rats. In my mind, as a child, that book was a very serious story, gritty even, so the animation just makes me flinch. "Oooh, look, here's a cute little show for children!" How COULD you destroy that book that way?!? I'm thinking of all the kids who are going to grow up with that show as their mental definition of The Rats. It happened to me with The Wizard of Oz.
Those books actually have something to say, they are actually books that will promote a fertile imagination, and they are being turned into fodder for mindless sheep. Sound bites. Kids, staring, drooling..."Hey, mom, this show sucks. When's Pinky and the Brain on?"
Goddamn it, will money-hungry producers just lay off corrupting the good material?
And lets not even get into the travesty that is Stuart Little, the movie....
Have you read The Rats of NIMH? Well, in that case, have you seen the animated version of it? (I can't remember if that was a TV series or not.)
And how incredibly disappointing did you find it? Really.
I thoroughly dislike this newish trend of taking children's classics and dumbing them down to unbelievable levels. I watched some of The Rats on TV at my grandparents, and just generally thought it was a waste of airspace. Not only did it seem a bit dumbed down, the voices were annoying. Why should the mice automatically have high voices? It irritated me that they'd even try to make a TV show (TV movie?) out of The Rats, because so much would be lost. It's just not a book that translates to that medium.
But what bothers me the most about both of these shows is the animation...by default, the style is too "cute." Particularly for The Rats. In my mind, as a child, that book was a very serious story, gritty even, so the animation just makes me flinch. "Oooh, look, here's a cute little show for children!" How COULD you destroy that book that way?!? I'm thinking of all the kids who are going to grow up with that show as their mental definition of The Rats. It happened to me with The Wizard of Oz.
Those books actually have something to say, they are actually books that will promote a fertile imagination, and they are being turned into fodder for mindless sheep. Sound bites. Kids, staring, drooling..."Hey, mom, this show sucks. When's Pinky and the Brain on?"
Goddamn it, will money-hungry producers just lay off corrupting the good material?
And lets not even get into the travesty that is Stuart Little, the movie....